Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2013

A generational jostling for space on a Brunswick wall

Thank you Mark Holsworth for sending me these pics of this wall in Brunswick. As Mark says: "...notice how the painter has carefully preserved the ghost sign cutting into the composition, but the new advert from the personal shopper hasn't." (btw, Mark's excellent Melbourne art blog is here: http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/)






Saturday, May 18, 2013

ghost sign featured in tonight's Eurovision Song Contest semi-final

I don't know what's more embarrassing: the fact that I've been watching the Eurovision semi-final tonight, or that my obsession with ghost signs is such that I've tracked down a screenshot of the ghost sign featured in tonight's promo video for Switzerland - which, by the way, is all about a visit to a  chocolate factory by the (woeful) Salvo band representing that country: